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More than 140,000 U.S. children have lost a parent or caregiver during the Covid-19 crisis due to the coronavirus or pandemic-related causes, Business Insider reports, citing a new study. This was according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as revealed ...

The value of cryptocurrency asset Bitcoin has fallen by seven per cent after China has announced plans to restrict cryptocurrency activities in the country further. “Virtual currency is a specific virtual commodity that is not issued by the monetary authority, ...

Nigerian ex-beauty queen, Agbani Darego, today marked the 20th anniversary of her emergence as Miss World. She marked this on her verified Instagram page, where she shared the video of herself when she was crowned 20 years ago. In the ...

The lawmaker representing Ede North State Constituency in the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Niran Atidade, has been attacked by social media users, as the pictures of packs of Semovita he distributed to his constituents went viral.   Each ...

Lagos Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has arrived at the scene of a gas explosion on Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of the state. The death toll has also rised to 5. At the moment, five persons have been ...

The management of the University of Ilorin has expelled a final-year student, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer, Mrs Rahmat Zakariyau, of the same Department. A statement by the ...

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency has said an open land with shanties and shops where gas cylinders were stacked caused the gas explosion which rocked the Ladipo area of the state on Tuesday morning. LASEMA, in a statement on ...

Salaudeen Waliu, alias Captain Walz, the final-year student of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Ilorin, who battered a female lecturer, Mrs Rahmat Zakariyau, has explained the reasons for his action. University Campus Journalist, an on-campus ...

  Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been charged with two further counts of rape, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. The 27-year-old Frenchman was initially charged on August 26 with alleged attacks on three different women and now faces ...

Comedian Okon Lagos has MOCKED a certain uncle Lai over the just submitted Lagos ENDSARS report. Okon says it’s indeed a tough job to defend LIES. He went ahead saying, the government needs to start compesating families of victims of ...

Falz has reacted to the confirmation of Lekki massacre, saying indeed certain animals made them doubt their insanity. Recall Falz and few other Nigerians had said people died on October 20 at the Lekki toll gate where a peaceful ENDSARS ...

Jaruma has called out Gombe gubernatorial aspirant, Yusuf Chikaire over an alleged N13m debt. The controversial aphrodisiac specialist with real names as Hauwa Saidu, called out the Gombe state gubernatorial aspirant, Yusuf Chikaire for allegedly owing her a sum of ...

At least three persons died in the gas explosion that occurred this morning on Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of Mushin in Lagos State. Mrs. Margaret Adeseye, Director of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, has confirmed the incident. ...

Adele helped a man propose to his girlfriend during her CBS special ‘Adele One Night Only,’ even while noting it was ‘a bit ironic’ to play cupid while promoting her ‘divorce, babe’ album. As part of the two-hour special, a ...

The Federal Government on Monday warned that a black market for fake vaccination certificates now exists in the country. The Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, raised ...

A lady, identified simply as Susan, has been electrocuted at the Hustle and Bustle club in the Aminu Kano Crescent area of Wuse, Abuja. It was gathered that the victim, who went to the club on Saturday, was allegedly electrocuted ...

Nigeria may experience fuel scarcity in coming days following the threat issued on Monday by The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas has given the Federal Government a two-week strike notice, raising the possibility of fuel scarcity across the ...

A suspected fraudster, Sikiru Adeniran, has been arrested while allegedly attempting to abduct a baby in Idomu-Owo, Ilese, in the Ijebu North East Local Government Area of Ogun State. Punch Metro gathered that Adeniran chased a young girl, Rodiat Iskilu, ...

  It’s the Alabi’s 21st wedding anniversary today and the gospel singer herself is very grateful to God. She took to social media to thank God for sustaining her home. Sharing a photo with her husband, Soji Alabi, the singer ...

No fewer than seven people were burnt to death while three others sustained varying degrees of injury in an accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Punch Metro learnt that the accident occurred on SLagos-Ibadan Expressway crashunday night around Ogunmakin in the ...

Anambra State Government has declared November 16 public holiday to honour their first President of Nigeria, late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. Governor Willie Obiano said it will be right for President Muhammadu Buhari to do the same. The late Owelle of ...

DJ Switch has reacted to Lagos ENDSARS panel confirming there was truly a massacre at the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020. The panel had said EndSARS protesters were truly shot at. The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel made the revelation ...

The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Ogun State, Akingbolahan Adeniran, has resigned. He tendered his resignation on November 8, following what was described as personal reasons. Confirming the resignation, Adeniran in a statement titled, ‘My reasons for resigning as ...

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters (Lagos EndSARS Panel) has reported the Lekki Tollgate shootings of October 20, 2020 as a massacre. The panel indicted soldiers and implicated ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted Nigerians over the existence of an Iranian hacking group called ‘Lyceum’ — which orchestrates cyber spying in the African telecoms space. In a statement on Monday, Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC’s director of public affairs, ...